WEBVTT - Civic Cipher 081322 Midterm Voting is More Important than You Know! (Part 2) 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:06.000 And now go my mic back. You're like that. 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:11.840 You can strike borders with waters from headquarters behind him 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:13.480 and the line the border. 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:15.400 If you're just tuned in the civic cypher, I'm your host, 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:17.840 Ramsay is Jack, Yes he is, and I am q Ward. 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.280 You are listening to civic cipher. That is the truth. 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:22.040 Be sure to stick around because we got a lot 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.680 more to talk about today. 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:30.680 We are referring to the realities of black women and 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:36.600 asking ourselves some questions, particularly about the mistreatment of black women. 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.600 I do want to take a moment to discuss voting 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.360 in the midterm elections, so stick around for that. Also, 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:45.600 we're gonna take some time and discuss our way black 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:51.240 history fact about house music and the very black origins 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.360 of house music. So for those of you are fans 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:56.680 of Calvin Harris and Vichi and Swedish house Mafia and 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:01.440 all that sort of stuff, it looks like maybe Beyonce 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.760 and Drake are encroaching on their territory. But I can 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.600 assure you with one hundred percent certainly that is not 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.640 the case. And I have known that for forever. But 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.160 hopefully if you don't know that, you will know it 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.520 after today. Now, first, and foremost, we're going to discuss 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:21.360 how to become a better ally Baba. Today's Baba is 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:25.200 sponsored by Hip Hop Weekly magazine. This comes via Anti 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:31.560 Racism Daily Promote Pay Transparency. Today we're talking about black women. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:36.399 Black women make the least amount of money of any 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:40.680 class of human being in this country, and we're going 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:46.360 to tell you how to help offset that. One such 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.760 way that you can go about accomplishing that is by 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:55.400 promoting pay transparency. Pay transparency refers to companies being open 0:01:55.600 --> 0:02:00.240 about the compensation provided for current and perspective employees as 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.040 a step toward pay equity for starters. 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:04.279 It's increased. 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:11.760 The awareness of bias and pay inequities. When employee pay 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.160 is no longer a secret, Every little difference in salary 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.079 needs to be accounted for, and what you can do, 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.560 in particular is take action. Many people falsely believe that 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:25.160 discussing how much you make with your coworkers is prohibited, 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:30.200 but it is not. This allows pay differentials between privileged 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.080 and marginalized people doing the same work to continue unchecked. 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:37.040 Pay transparency and equity are crucial because in our society, 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.440 our ability to survive and thrive depends on how we 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:43.040 are compensated for our jobs. So, in other words, if 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:47.600 you work at a job and you make money at 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:53.160 this job, and there are marginalized individuals today we're talking 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:57.279 about black women specifically, and you've never had a conversation 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.800 about how much you make. A way you can become 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.200 a better ally is say, hey, you and I do 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.560 the same job. Here's how much money I make. Just 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:07.280 wanted you to know. 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.800 That if you need anything else, how let me, And 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:13.239 that's how you can become a better ally. Moving on. 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:19.840 Again, we're talking about harms perpetuated against black women, and 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.200 I do want to get back to that, but I'm 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:27.400 going to take a slight detour here. We we're going 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:31.560 to take a slight te toy here, and I want 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:35.440 to talk about voting for a second. If you know 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:38.360 the history of this country, which I hope you do, 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.400 and the history of black people in this country specifically, 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.120 or even the history of the show where we talk 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:45.680 about these things from time to. 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:46.560 Time, you'll know that. 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:53.120 Voting if you're a black person is challenging depending on 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:58.760 where you are, and a black woman's vote is less 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:07.080 valuable overall because of invisible forces, jerrymandering, the way the 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:15.000 Senate seats are allotted and other strange relics from a 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:20.279 bygone era. It allows, you know, a middle class white 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:25.039 male in South Dakota's vote to count for one point 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:29.400 seven to three times the amount of a vote of 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.880 a white woman in the South in a poor part 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:41.839 of you know her state. But voting is still the 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:46.400 best tool that we have for engaging in the system 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.799 and changing the system it. You know, we can protest, 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.839 and we can, you know, bring attention to matters. We 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.000 can talk on this show all we want, but the 0:04:56.040 --> 0:05:00.479 fact is is that voting remains our most powerful So 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:04.800 let's talk about that for a second now. As you know, 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:09.919 voting in the presidential election is incredibly important. That is 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:17.400 the commander in chief and the position that dictates the 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:23.039 cultural norms for a country, our country for four. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:29.520 Years, and it provides guidance, moral and otherwise for this 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.240 country for that same period of time. 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.680 So I think everyone kind of understands the gravity of that. 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:41.680 But many, many less people vote in midterm elections. And 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:48.480 that's unfortunate because that is largely a liberal phenomenon. In 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.760 other words, if you have more liberal views, more liberal ideas, 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.520 you are part of this country In fact, there are 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.159 way more people with liberal views in this country than 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.600 there are folks withservative views. In other words, there are 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:07.160 more would be Democrats than there are conservatives slash would 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:13.080 be conservatives. It's just a fact. The thing is, those 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:17.440 conservatives they vote, they vote often, They make sure that 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.520 their votes are counted, and then they run for office 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.880 to make sure that their votes are counted in such 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.440 a way that it disenfranchises the votes of folks with 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.640 liberal views. It's particularly poor folks, particularly black. 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.720 And brown folks. They also tend to have a better 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:37.320 marketing department. So the people that vote that way seem 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.279 to all vote the same and want the same things, 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:45.760 and even if they don't, actually they pretend to very loudly, 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.320 which causes them to turn up, to turn out, to 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:55.479 participate and to get these outcomes that they desire. From 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.640 the top down, some of the people from the bottom 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:03.440 who are kind of under the thumb vote, vote, protest, 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.520 march and speak out against their own best interest in 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.840 support of this machine that they're a part of, because 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:15.200 they feel that included, that important and that valuable two 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:24.920 said system. That's crazy. Meanwhile, the liberal side of it, 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:29.440 sadly seems to cannibalize and eat its own criticize its 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.960 own much more frequently, and you end up with a 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.200 bunch of different voices who, even if they do all 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.440 want the same thing, don't realize it, and they end up, yeah, 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:45.280 pushing each other down or pushing each other out, and 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.880 not finding a way to unite their voices and have 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.160 the same direction, the same goal, or the same proportion, 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.960 if you will. I'm glad you said that, because that's 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:55.600 where I'm going with this. I'm gonna share some crazy 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.400 stuff with you now. I do want to add something 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:03.800 to what you said that You mentioned the more conservative marketing, 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.720 the way that they market their messages, and I want 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.680 to make sure that I state that it's often not 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:18.960 as much marketing as it is fear mongering. They are 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.800 very good at scaring their base into thinking that Mexicans 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:28.080 are coming over the border to ruin your life, you know, 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:31.720 and whatever. Black people are all on welfare and that's 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:36.720 why taxes are high. And they don't. 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.640 Even acknowledge the fact that really corporations and this whole 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:44.720 capitalistic model is to blame for ninety of the things 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:48.800 that result in you know what, we're what we would 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:54.800 consider to be fiscal economic inequity, right, which is, you know, 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.600 sort of the thing most let's care about. But you 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.400 mentioned that, you know, on the liberal side of things, 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.720 folks tend to kind of go back and forth. So 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.640 the reason why these midterms are very important is because, 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:19.280 as you know, January sixth, twenty twenty one, the United 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:23.680 States Capitol Building was breached by Trump supporters. These are facts, 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:30.360 not going to debate them anymore. And when that happened, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.160 it was the result of Trump telling his base that 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:40.320 the election was stolen from him, again baseless claim. He 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.679 took it to court all over the country. I forget 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.679 the number of court battles that he had, but it 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.120 was some crazy number and lost every one of them. Right, 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.840 There was no substantial evidence of voter fraud enough to 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:58.200 change any outcome of any election. There's been fraud, you know, 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.800 minimal fraud in every elections since the beginning of elections 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:10.120 in this country. But this election, this most recent presidential 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.840 election cycle, was the most safest or the safest election 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:14.760 on record. 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:16.439 And that's not to say that all of our elections 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.959 are fair. Just fraud based on the rules that we 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.480 played by, didn't occur. Sure not that the rules that 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.760 we play by are are fair. 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:30.640 But we still turned out sorry sixty three lawsuits that 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:35.760 Donald Trump lost ridiculous around the country. And for those 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:41.680 that are familiar with the January sixth hearings and the committee, 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:46.840 they realized that, or you rather, you realize that Donald 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:51.040 Trump actually called people to try to get them to 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.200 manufacture some extra numbers so that he could carry the 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:59.200 state of Georgia or whatever, and he was told repeatedly, Hey, 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.240 it's just not there, man. The numbers are the numbers, 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:02.800 you know what I mean. They came up with the 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.319 cyber Ninjas and they came to you know, we live 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.560 in Arizona. So they came to Phoenix to the fair 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:12.480 grounds and you know, they blocked out the fairgrounds and 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.560 the cyber Ninjas were there to recount the election results. 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.960 And guess what the cyber Ninjas found out They weren't. 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.800 He picked the cyber Ninjas that side, the Republicans side 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.920 picked the cyber Ninjas, and they found it the same thing. Yeah, 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.000 he kind of won Arizona, man like it was. It 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.400 was not close. So even the cyber Ninjas picked by them. 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.559 After the fact that he lost, the lawsuits still confirmed 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:37.959 the same thing. And yet this man still is maintaining 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.840 that the election was stolen from him and that literally 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:46.839 everybody is working against him, and he has a base 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.760 that that makes it's logical to them, literally everybody is 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.959 working against Donald Trump, rather than literally everybody voted. 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:55.560 Against Donald Trump in a free and fair election, and 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:59.240 they also want that to be true, so that confirmation bias. Also, Oh, 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.360 it's real strong like the force that power is real strongly. 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:07.000 But as a result of that, Donald Trump has used 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:16.120 his endorsement around the country to endorse candidates that Remember 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.480 I said that these people run for office. 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:22.200 They don't just vote the more conservative facets of this country. 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:26.360 They run for elected positions. The strangest thing is a 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.360 lot of these people aren't even campaigning. They don't even 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.000 have a platform that they're campaigning on. It just simply 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:36.120 says endorsed by Donald Trump. That's their whole thing. That's it, 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.480 And sadly, in a lot of places. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:39.560 That's enough. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:40.199 That's enough. 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.199 So the reason why I'm telling you this is because 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.240 you need to know I'm not far be it for 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:47.920 me to tell you who to vote for, but I 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.640 will say, don't vote for Donald Trump. Or anybody endorsers 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.240 because I have a radio show and I can do 0:12:52.280 --> 0:13:00.760 that anyway. He's installing, or rather endorseeing people around the 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:07.839 country that are election deniers like him, and the result 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.080 of that is the next time he runs, when he 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:15.160 inevitably gets less votes, as he's done for the past 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:20.280 two elections that he's run, he can then say, oh, 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:25.320 the election was stolen, and then he will have people 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:31.720 all around the country in elected positions because you know, 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:35.000 folks with more liberal beliefs did not engage in these 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:39.600 mid term elections. They will be installed and responsible for 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:43.680 counting those votes. And people like where we live in Arizona, 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:48.160 Carry Lake is a candidate that will have a degree 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:52.640 of influence over how elections are tallied and what the 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:59.480 final reporting will be. And at that point, as I 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:05.120 mentioned earlier in the show, it doesn't matter how many 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:06.959 votes we have how we turn out, you know what 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:08.920 I mean? If they just want to say, okay, well, 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:14.400 you know this side one they already have shown based 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.120 on their belief of Donald Trump blindly, not the results 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.240 of sixty seven, sixty six court cases, what was it, 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.120 sixty three court cases, not the results of the January 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.400 sixth hearing committee, not the results of the fact that 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.120 nobody has produced anything substantial, not even them. 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.200 They haven't tweeted a thing. They haven't none of that 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.960 they will just be able to. Again, They've shown that 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.000 they're not subscribed to the same reality. And to me, 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:44.160 that suggests that if they're subscribed to a separate, detached reality, 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:50.320 that they can invent new facts for the purposes of accomplishing, 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:54.320 you know, furthering their agenda, and the actual will of 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.920 the people will be thwarted. That to me means that 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:02.160 this midterm election will set us up for elections for 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:07.160 the next ten years minimum. Where our votes if you 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.680 have a more liberal philosophy, if you care about people, 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.800 if you have love in your heart and empathy and 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:13.600 you want to see us all kind of move together 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:17.520 as brothers and sisters, again a more liberal philosophy, our 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.560 votes count for nothing if this man wins all of 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.560 these or of this side rather wins all of these 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:28.240 Trump endorsed election candidates and all these places around the country. 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:32.160 So it's very important to get out there and vote. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:33.840 And I want to use an example. You got something 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.600 to a well, Carrie Lake is an awesome example of 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.720 what we've been talking about, let's go with that, we're 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:44.680 talking about the marginalization of women of black women specifically. 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.480 And then we have Carrie Lake endorsed by Donald Trump, 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.160 and I'm sure that's something that she wears as a 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:55.720 badge of honor, which is sick like, it's actually sickening. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.960 The terrifying thing about what's happening with the political lands 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.160 escape in our country is that once upon a time 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.640 there were items, if you were trying to play the middle, 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:10.400 that you could speak to to garner support from both 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.200 sides of the aisle, if you will. There are no 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.880 such things anymore. There is nothing that we as a 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:21.600 country stand unified on at all that is insane because 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.960 before we were a Democratic Republican, before we were black 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.560 or white, even, we were just all human beings and 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.560 the human condition used to exist. Right. My mother didn't 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.120 vote for Ronald Reagan. We knew people that did. They 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.760 didn't hate us, and we didn't hate them. Even more recently, 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.920 like George Bush, I was not a Bush supporter. I 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.200 was actually someone that was very critical of the way 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:41.840 he handled a lot of things. But I know people 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.520 that met him, and even if they couldn't speak to 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:48.360 him being some scholar or some great politician. They said 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:52.840 he was a nice person, and in instances where things happened, 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:57.920 he came out in personal support of people across the 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:01.240 aisle when they dealt with hardships because he at least 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.159 wanted to appear to be and from the people that 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.560 I've heard it from, I'll take their word for it, 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:11.840 a genuinely kind person, even if his politics were so much, 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:17.320 so extremely different from ours. So this is the first 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:21.600 time in my lifetime that we've been so divided on things. 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:27.120 Sure that it's that it's it's like gangs. And it's 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.159 kind of even worse than that, right, because there is 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.200 no particular territory that we hold or own that we're 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.679 fighting to uphold. It is literally just ideals, and they 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:40.199 are so extreme, the opposite of one another. And in 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:43.440 this case it's not there's good people on both sides. 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.520 As you know, the Idiot in Chief once upon a 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:50.720 time said, there's not the things that this group stands 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.800 on and believes in are horrible, batter and deplorable and 0:17:54.119 --> 0:18:00.440 obviously terrible things. The things that this side should stand 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.320 on and support are just different. Even the things that 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:07.040 are political that are like flagrantly political that are in 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:13.200 their own best political interest, aren't evil in their scope 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.359 as the other side of the aisle, except for things like, 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.760 you know, the often brought up during the presidential election 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:24.040 crime bill that our current president spearheaded, and some of 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.320 the ideals that he's starting to say out loud again 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:30.879 that sound a little scary, scarily familiar so to the 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:32.720 things that he brought to the table back then. But 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.240 you said Carry Lake's name in it. It was an 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.760 emotional trigger because every time I see her picture in 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.879 her face, because we've known Carry Lake for years, not 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:44.480 as a politician, and she's a TV person out here, Yeah, 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.800 she's a TV person. We do TV too, so we 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.639 know the person out here that if you didn't know 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.399 any better, you'd group in with us. You think you 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.080 were looking at her photographs or if you'd watched her 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.080 on TV before. So the first time I saw a 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:01.680 sign that said endorsed by Donald Trump and then some 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.960 Republicans putting up another sign that says, but she donated 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.720 money to Barack Obama, was like, Okay, the game that 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:12.200 they're playing now is very, very different than anything I'd 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:12.600 ever see. 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:16.280 So watch this, watch this this is what I found out. 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:21.920 This is the little secret. You're still gonna blow your mind. Cue. 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:32.080 So you mentioned our current president and his crime bill 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:35.159 that he's known for spearheading. You know, so Joe Biden 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:39.320 gets this crime bill off. It's really harmful for black 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:46.080 people and brown people in this country. Doesn't necessarily address 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:50.280 crime in a meaningful way. Just punishes poor people for 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:55.359 being poor. And you know, the statistics were used to 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:59.159 scare lots of people. Oh you know, uh, but the 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:04.320 statistics are are oftentimes a reflection of the people arrested 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:07.480 for those crimes, not the people committing those crimes, which 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:10.280 is the most unfair thing. Right, But if you just 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.919 look at the statistics and it's not told to you 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.760 in that way, you think black people are committing all 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:19.280 of these crimes. No, just arrested for it. In other words, 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:22.600 crime happens across the board. 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:27.040 Most of the crime that we classify as crimes crimes 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:29.720 of people just not having enough and trying to get 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:32.520 more however they can get it. So we're talking about 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:35.320 economic things and then in terms of like violent crimes 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:38.360 things like that. You know, police are the most violent 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:42.000 domestic abuse people, you know, police officers they beat their 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:45.840 wives more frequently than anybody else. Right, this is not 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:48.040 rams is making the sub It's not a stereotype. You 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:50.199 can google that and Google is super free, so I'm 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.600 employed to do it right now. But police don't get 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.000 arrested for that. And as a result, if you look 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:59.560 at domestic abuse cases, it doesn't say police or white 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.720 men or you know, whatever makeup of the police police 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:07.040 forces in this country is, it'll show you who's arrested 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:11.919 for those crimes. And again that's suggested in such a 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:15.159 way to where people think that black people are committing 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:17.439 all the crimes and Hispanic people are committing all the crimes. 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:21.760 So you know, you got to take even your statistics 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:25.639 with the grain of salt. But yeah, Joe Biden spearheaded 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:32.000 this crime bill. Now watch this. What has either allowed 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:36.640 or forced the Democrats to move away from the far 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:40.879 left and now away from the center left and to 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:47.200 really what historically would be viewed as republican territory is 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:52.080 the fact that the right is moving so far right right, 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:56.560 and you would think that by holding your ground. Allah, hey, 0:21:57.080 --> 0:22:00.040 Bernie Sanders is running, let's not you know, kick his 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:05.040 legs out from under him. Twice Let's let the people 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:08.240 who are most enthusiastic actually vote for the man and 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:10.560 his platform live and die on its merits, you know, 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:16.639 based on how the country will receive it. What they've 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:19.560 chosen to do, the Democratic establishment has chosen to do, 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:25.560 is fund the far right Republican candidates, so that Carrie 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:30.719 Lake signage that you were talking about endorsed by Donald Trump, 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:35.120 the purse. The people rather who bought the donated carry 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:40.360 Lake donated to Obama signs were Democrats. And the reason 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:46.280 that this is the Democratic thinking. If they help get 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:55.119 the Republican kooks past the primaries to the general election, 0:22:55.840 --> 0:22:59.520 then the public that means the left and the center 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:04.840 will be polarized by these kooks and they will choose 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:07.080 the Democratic nominee by default. 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:13.359 They problem with donal Donald Trump became president the United 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:18.040 States exactly. And that's why you need to get out 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:23.080 to the polls and let your voice be known as 0:23:23.160 --> 0:23:25.639 often as you can, as often as they do. So 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:27.879 we're talking about mid terms, but the truth is you 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:30.720 need to be present, and you need to show up, 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:33.880 and you need to take this country back. If you regardless, 0:23:33.880 --> 0:23:35.280 would you even if you're like a big fan of 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:38.160 Cary Lake and a big fan of Donald Trump. If 0:23:38.160 --> 0:23:40.600 that's really how you feel, we'll let the numbers decide, 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:42.720 And if the numbers really speak for where. 0:23:42.480 --> 0:23:46.040 We are, then I'll take that. I'll take that on 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:47.880 the chin. But I know for a fact that most 0:23:47.880 --> 0:23:50.400 of the people in this country have a more liberal philosophy. 0:23:50.720 --> 0:23:53.800 Most of the people in this country care about stories 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:58.080 like Brittany Griner. They care about stories like Breonna Taylor. 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:02.440 Since we're centering black women, you know, why not keep 0:24:02.440 --> 0:24:04.600 black women in mine the next time you cast your vote, 0:24:04.600 --> 0:24:08.040 which again hopefully will be for this midterm election coming up. 0:24:09.800 --> 0:24:14.600 So moving on, it's time for the Way Black History Fact. 0:24:16.560 --> 0:24:19.320 Today's Way Black History Fact is sponsored by Hip Hop 0:24:19.359 --> 0:24:22.520 Weekly magazine. The story comes to you via The Guardian. 0:24:23.400 --> 0:24:24.760 We're going to talk about house music. 0:24:24.840 --> 0:24:26.320 I know you're probably listening to us on a hip 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:29.640 hop station, but you know what house music is and 0:24:30.119 --> 0:24:31.240 I know you like it too. 0:24:31.320 --> 0:24:34.200 Don't act like you don't like it. All right, I'll 0:24:34.200 --> 0:24:36.240 tell you a little secret. I love house music. 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:38.280 I got a chance to DJ some house music in 0:24:38.359 --> 0:24:41.520 Vegas twenty ten, playing in Hollywood. Had a year long 0:24:41.560 --> 0:24:43.639 residency out there before I came here and did TV 0:24:44.400 --> 0:24:49.720 on Channel three in Arizona. Loved every minute of it. 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:51.879 Happy music man, not mad at it. But you know 0:24:51.960 --> 0:24:54.800 why I wasn't so polarized by it is because I 0:24:54.920 --> 0:24:58.680 knew that house music coming from Chicago and black people, right, 0:24:58.880 --> 0:25:00.800 so it didn't feel like you know, I listened to 0:25:00.920 --> 0:25:02.800 like rock music sometimes I know where it comes from. 0:25:03.000 --> 0:25:08.520 All the any music with the drum comes from Africa, right. 0:25:10.040 --> 0:25:13.159 The drum was the first instrument and the pattern, the 0:25:13.200 --> 0:25:15.399 drum pattern that we all feel most familiar with. The 0:25:15.440 --> 0:25:17.840 four over four account is based on the human heart beat, 0:25:17.880 --> 0:25:23.840 which is why it sounds comforting to us, and it 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:26.400 sounds erratic when we hear a different type of swing 0:25:26.480 --> 0:25:27.000 to the music. 0:25:27.560 --> 0:25:31.960 You know, so boom boom boom boom boom boom, boom boom. 0:25:31.960 --> 0:25:35.119